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Some Activities For Teaching the Mechanics of Vision
Students learn the mechanics of vision. In this biology lesson plan, students discover the relationship of light to vision, how light moves, how that affects what we see, and some structural aspects of the eye.
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Applied Science - Science and Math Lab (read without sight)
Learners consider the senses. In this sight and touch lesson, students discover what it is like to function like a person who is blind. They work in groups and individually on various activities to experience this condition. This lesson...
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Health Education: An Integrated Approach; A Day Without Sight
Fourth graders hypothesize about the difficulties they may encounter if they did not have their sense of sight, in order to establish a sense of empathy for the disabled. In this instructional activity on senses, 4th graders record all...
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ESL-Sight Word Printing Practice
In this ESL sight words worksheet, students practice tracing a set of 10 basic sight words. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Letter and Sight Word Review
In this letter and sight word worksheet, students practice naming letters, saying sounds, reading simple sentences and blending and reading words.
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Arthur's Eyes
Students learn about the parts of the eye. In this eyes and vision instructional activity, students the story Arthur's Eyes and create a KWL chart about eyes. Students label the parts of the eye, examine the eyes of different animals...
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Enormous Turnips
First graders complete activities with the story The Great Big Enormous Turnip by Alexel Tolstoy. In this language arts lesson, student view the story as a Cloze passage and work with a partner to fill in the blanks. They check to make...
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I Think, Therefore I See
Students participate in a memory experiment to discover how the eye works. After reading an article, they analyze a new technique which examines how the brain registers sight. They develop their own memory game and conduct trials using...
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Sight Words: me, at, help, and too
In this sight words activity, students study the 4 sight words: "me," "at," "help," and "too." Students then circle the words in 4 sentences.
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Sight Words
For this sight words worksheet, students look at the list of sight words and locate them within the word search puzzle. Students locate 8 words by sight: are, in, like, my, on, ride, see, this.
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Sight Words - Word Search
In this sight words worksheet, students look at the list of sight words (one, two, three, have, new, want, play, with) and locate them within the word search puzzle.
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Sight Words - Word Search
In this sight words learning exercise, students look at the list of sight words (and, the, down, up, find, little, will you) and locate them within the word search puzzle.
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Sight Words
In this sight words worksheet, students look at the four sight words in the table. Students find and circle the sight words "did," "that," "one," and "can" in the 4 given sentences.
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Recognize Sight Words Worksheet
In this sight words worksheet, students look at the 4 sight words in the table: "go," "said," "funny," and "to." Students circle these words in 4 sentences.
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Recognize Sight Words Worksheet
In this sight words worksheet, students look at the 4 sight words in the table: "it," "my," "two," and "pretty." Students circle each of the words in 4 sentences.
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Recognize Sight Words Worksheet
In this sight words worksheet, students look at the 4 sight words in the table: "for," "on," "look," and "ride." Students circle each of the words in 4 sentences.
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Sight Words: here, want, are, and new
In this sight words activity, students look at the 4 sight words in the table: "here," "want," "are," and "new." Students circle each of the words in 4 sentences.
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Sight word cards
In this sight word worksheet, students cut out sight word cards with and without pictures. Students cut out 32 word cards and do language arts activities with them.
Mathematics Vision Project
Circles: A Geometric Perspective
Circles are the foundation of many geometric concepts and extensions - a point that is thoroughly driven home in this extensive unit. Fundamental properties of circles are investigated (including sector area, angle measure, and...
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Dolch Word List
This website provides several printable flashcards that can be used to teach sight words.
Early Childhood Learning and Knowlege Center
My Body My Senses
In a comprehensive unit of activities, learners explore the five senses. Youngsters discover the many different body parts and their functions that allow humans to have sense of sight, touch, smell, taste, and hearing. The best way to...
Space Race
Sensory Detectives
Test your learners' sensory awareness with three hands-on activities that ask pupils to use their other senses to identify and describe everyday objects hidden from sight.
Read Write Think
Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading
Over the course of five periods, scholars create a poetry portfolio. They begin with a reading of the poem, Firefly. With a focus on vocabulary, learners reread the poem then look for sight words and other skills.
Reading Resource
Take Me Out to the Ballgame Card Game
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack! Inspire some competition between your learners with a baseball-themed reading game. Players take turns reading as many words as they can, and once they reach a card they can't read, they tally up...